800% Increase In Money Laundering Cases Connected To The Cryptocurrency

According to the report published by the news media outlet “The Japan Times”, the National Police Agency in Japan registered about 6000 cases of money laundering connected to the cryptocurrency industry. The figures were taken from the research in the period from January to October 2018.

The amount of cases has raised showing an 800% increase in compare to the period from April to December 2017.

An NPA official commented on this situation:

“We have seen some large-scale cryptocurrency thefts, and operators are believed to be scrutinizing transactions more rigorously.”

In the report, NPA also emphasized on the vulnerabilities of the cryptocurrency transactions. Anonymous transactions can be transferred to overseas, due to different cryptocurrency regulations in various countries, it is hard to track the culprit.

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Kaspersky Lab has published report that about 13 million cryptojacking crimes have been committed in 2018. This number is quite impressive, however, if we look at it from the annual statistics point of view, we can see that the amount of cases are up by 400% this year alone.

Cryptojacking is a term to describe malicious activity when a culprit generates cryptocurrency (transfer funds) without the owner’s knowledge using a compromised device. This kind of crypto crime is highly popular in the financial world.

The most common jacked cryptocurrency by cryptojackers is Monero (XMR). The virus or malware enters a user’s PC, usually it happens when the later watches online ads or solves captcha. Then the script creates chaos on a PC’s CPU power making the system run slowly.

Our editorship urges you to be careful in order not to fall into the hands of criminals. We want to remind you:

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The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added a long-awaited feature to its system: its users can now buy and sell crypto for crypto directly. The innovation is called Coinbase Convert and is already available at the site Coinbase.com and both Android and iOS apps.

The trading pairs presented at Coinbase were selected based on the feedback of the exchange customers. This move will help the company to involve larger retail audience and engage it in digital trading.

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It seems like Malta will soon open a financial institutions that will provide services for blockchain and crypto-related businesses, which is going to big a big step towards the introduction of cryptocurrency in Europe, since the conventional banks rarely have crypto-friendly terms.

RnF Finance Limited, a Maltese firm, has already applied to the financial authority of the country in order to get a license to create a blockchain bank.

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As it has been reported by the Marketwatch, Erik Finman, a teenager who became a millionaire back in the times when Bitcoin cost 20 thousand dollars, gave a very negative outlook for BTC in the future.

“Bitcoin is dead, it’s too fragmented, there’s tons of infighting I just don’t think it will last. It may have a bull market or two left in it, but long-term, its dead,” said Finman.

As for Litecoin, here the teenager is sure that this coin “has been dead for a while”. He also mentioned those coins that, in his opinion, still have a chance at the market, such as Ethereum, ZCash and, surprisingly, Bitcoin Cash.

Although Eric is still very young and not that experienced, the fact that he owned 4 million dollars in BTC in 2011 make his predictions quite reasonable.